I was asked by a Obamanion how this would be fixed in an ancap society:
So, theres a poor neighborhood (probably not going to occur in the wealthier neighborhood) and they build a potassium processing plant (can’t think of anything so I choose potassium) and, hypothetically speaking of course (unless it really is), it being harmful to humans will lead to a score of pointless deaths. These such aforementioned people do not have the power to make the industry relocate its facility, and so, because there homes have lost all value, must stay to drown in the pollutants. How would this be fixed?
PS: I don’t know how this would be fixed, thus I ask all of you. Also, know I don’t know too much so don’t bash me.
Well as nameless said they could file a suit, furthermore if they are killing people on massive scale most likely people would stop buying their products, also don’t be so hard on yourself.
something that dangerous would pose steep insurance costs to those who live in the area -ergo it is highly improbable that such a plant will be built or people would live near it or both.
Killing people tends to make their friends and relatives want to kill you in retaliation. How realistic is it that some company would be able to just move in and do something like this unless the government is protecting the company from the public?
Show me a robber baron and I will show you a man with senators in his pocket.
Luis, the issue here is always going to be one of property rights. The state claims that if it has monopoly power of law (creation and interpretation) and justice (enforcement) then in the absence of government, these people cannot claim damages, and cannot protect themselves from the wealthy/foreigners/dangerous/evil/stoned/capitalists/religious fanatics etc.
No one person has any right to pollute and hurt another or their property. PERIOD. If the state says murder is a crime, and one man kills another in the wilderness, is it still not a crime in the absence of the state?
Many get confused, and think that anarchy, implies no law. No creation of law, interpretation of law, and no enforcement. This is 100% INCORRECT.
In the absence of a government, those people faced with death, would probably rise up and enforce some property rights justice against the plant. Statists always assume that in the absence of the state, people will run out of jobs and starve to death, rather than start their own business. That they will let their children play in the dirt, in the absence of public education. That they will allow a poisonous manufacturing process to kill them, rather than to fight back.
It’s silly.
Also, do not expect you can answer every problem with an ancap solution. Ancap might not have every solution. What it promises, is a more moral approach, a market approach to social problems, one that does not rely on coercion, and protects the right of every individual to own/control himself and his property.
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